"Those who remain"

A temporary artistic exhibition by Maceo Goy-Clairet, October 15 - December 13, 2025

For the first time, the Musée de Minéralogie of Paris School of Mines presents a contemporary exhibition featuring entirely new works: Those Who Remain by Maceo Goy-Clairet, curated by Joseph Dubrule and Mara Di Maggio. With this project, the institution reaffirms and renews its ongoing dialogue between science, heritage, and contemporary creation.

A former student of the museum’s drawing classes in his youth, Maceo Goy-Clairet returns with a renewed perspective, shaped by his training at the École des Arts Décoratifs. Through a body of new works, he questions the status of the mineral—an object of fascination, collection, and human projection.

“The obsession with collecting, naming, and classifying objects reflects a profound desire for mastery, order, and understanding of the world,” wrote Jean Baudrillard. This obsession finds its most exemplary embodiment in the Mineralogy Museum of Paris School of Mines, and the exhibition Those Who Remain delves into its deeper resonances. Using processes such as electrolysis, molding, and glassblowing, the artist replays and accelerates natural phenomenas, offering his own collection of stones that reveal less about the minerals themselves than about our obsessions with them.

Among the five thousand specimens on display at the museum, Those who remain speak to what endures: not only geological matter, but the inexhaustible human desire to inhabit eternity and to master what escapes us. With critical distance, the exhibition stages a tension between the mineral’s immovable permanence and the creative urgency of humankind, inviting visitors to reconsider their relationship to time, matter, and mortality.

Practical information

Those who remain — Macéo Goy-Clairet

Mineralogy Museum of Mines Paris - PSL

October 15 – December 13, 2025

The temporary exhibit is included with the purchase of the regular entrance ticket

About the artist Maceo Goy-Clairet

Maceo Goy-Clairet was born in 1998. He lives and works in Maisons-Alfort. A visual artist by training, he graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2023. His practice began with photographic research into our daily aesthetic experience—both intimate and collective. After experimenting with multiple artistic techniques, Maceo turned to sculpture and installation. His work forms a palimpsest of narratives, serving as a testament to the passage of time.

Maceo Goy-Clairet at his workshop, summer 2025. Photo credit: Adrien Jacquemet.

Glass-blowing, by Maceo Goy-Clairet, summer 2025. Photo credit: Adrien Jacquemet.

About End of Day

End of Day is a creative and artist management agency founded in 2024 by Joseph Dubrule. They curate and manage a multidisciplinary network of artistes to create narratives with organizations, brands, institutions and culture at large.